It's hard not to be moved, on visiting Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, by the row of gutted state rooms along the South Front, destroyed by fire in 1940. At the time, the building housed the ...

A number of rooms at the stately home have been empty shells since 1940, when the house was hit by a huge fire. The fire destroyed Castle Howard’s dome and more than 20 rooms, but over the years ...

The carvings will make their debut at Sotheby’s in May 2025, with the proceeds to going to the restoration of Castle Howard’s tapestry drawing room ...